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NHL’s Halpern a Jewish sports honoree

August 12, 2020

Halpern will become only the second hockey player to be inducted into the Jewish Sports Heritage Association, joining Mike Hartman, who played 58 of his 397 career games with the 1992- 93 Lightning during nine NHL seasons. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman also has been so honored. The induction ceremony at Temple Israel of Lawrence on Long Island, New York., was originally planned for April 26, but the Coronavirus pandemic forced cancellation of the program until 2021, at a date to be announced. Among this year’s other inductees are former Boston Red Sox infielder Kevin Youkilis, former NBA Commissioner David Stern, author Mitch Albom, boxing analyst Al Bernstein, and the late Ed Sabol and his son, Steve, co-founders of NFL Films. [Bruce F. Lowitt]

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San Diego gears up for 2020 JCC Maccabi Experience

November 13, 2019

The Lawrence Family JCC has been sending flyers to people throughout the county looking for athletes, artists, volunteers and donors for the 2020 JCC Maccabi Experience, in which over 400 San Diego County teen athletes and artists will become part of a competition among 2,200 teens from throughout the world from Sunday August 2 through Friday, August 7. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Sports Astrology

July 25, 2019

By Bruce F. Lowitt TAMPA, Florida — Here’s an astrological chart for my fellow sports fans. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Tampa residents, you’re living in the only major-league market to have never hosted an All-Star Game. If the Rays don’t get a new ballpark, Montreal will host another one before Tampa Bay does. VIRGO (Aug.

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Baseball stats ever more complex

May 29, 2019

By Bruce F. Lowitt CLEARWATER, Florida –Baseball, which has probably cherished statistics since the first strikeout and hit were recorded, has latched on with a passion to “exit velocity” and “launch angle” this season. In the case of the San Diego Padres, does it matter if the ball leaves Ian Kinsler’s bat at 116.5 mph

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Will High Holy Day Rimon soon be grown in Florida?

August 24, 2018

By Bruce F. Lowitt ZOLFO SPRINGS, Florida – There’s a bit of the Middle East in the middle of Florida, where pomegranates – one of the seven fruits named in Deuteronomy as representing the bounty of Israel – grow in abundance. It’s called Green Sea Farms, 31 acres, six devoted to 130 varieties of pomegranates,

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Floridian praises book on San Diego Jews

May 12, 2018

By Bruce F. Lowitt CLEARWATER, Florida — Donald H. Harrison’s 77 Miles Of Jewish Stories, a journey along the Kumeyaay Highway (better known as Interstate 8) from the Pacific Ocean to San Diego County’s eastern border, is a wonderful companion to his earlier work, Schlepping Through The American West, vividly revealing often little-known nuggets of

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It could be, it might be, it is (!) a great sports book

April 10, 2018

The Game Isn’t Everything: The reality beyond the arena by Bruce Lowitt; Barstad Comminications; © 2015; 281 pages; 14.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I learned when I was a rookie reporter for the Associated Press back in 1967 that any fool, including yours truly, could write a story about an athletic contest.

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Human- interest writer plumbs real lives of athletes

July 30, 2016

The Game Isn’t Everything: The reality beyond the arena by Bruce Lowitt; Barstad Communications; © 2015; ISBN 978153-4981126; 285 pages, $14.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Bruce Lowitt is an all-around sportswriter who covered the big NFL games for the Associated Press, and, later in his career, regaled readers with stories about sports

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Now a Jewish Major Leaguer baseball site

June 26, 2010

By Bruce F. Lowitt ST. PETERSBURG, Florida — Think Jewish baseball players. OK, now that you’ve come up with Sandy Koufax and Hank Greenberg, think about, say, a dozen Jewish major leaguers playing right now. There’s Kevin Youkilis of the Red Sox and Gabe Kapler of the Rays, and … um … Ryan Braun of the

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Some recommended reading on other sites, #1

December 9, 2009

Judy Lash Balint, “Starting Over: Gush Katif refugees begin again,” The Jewish Star of Long Island. Jane Fantel refers us to a speech in 1991 by Severn Suzuki, a 12-year-old Canadian girl, about global warming. Yarden Frankl refers us to a video dance tribute to the late Australian philanthropist Richard Pratt. Rabbi Ben Kamin, “Afterlife?

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Freddie Roman recalls ‘goldeneh’ era of the Catskills

November 14, 2009

By Bruce F. Lowitt OLDSMAR, Florida–Freddie Roman hasn’t been around as long as the Catskills, although it might seem that way. He is a living history of a region that gave birth to countless great Jewish comedians and a reminder of an era of American Jewish life long past. There are the Catskill Mountains, ranging

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